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I have a great deal of respect for the people who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of solutions that help everyone in the world. Notably, Karen Armstrong delivered a speech (found via Chris) at the TED conference this year discussing the current problems with religion in the world. I have tremendous respect for her [...]

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!Henry David Thoreau

There is a dreadful anxiety surrounding nudity in some modern countries, most notably the United States. [...]

You’re up late in Widener Library on the Harvard campus, studying for your MCAT to get into Johns Hopkins Medical School. There’s a familiar face at one of the tables next to you — it’s that kid who never shows up for lecture and is constantly struggling through the same material that you and your [...]

“Business is business.” says the old adage. It is, of course, true. Naïvety, anxiety, or eagerness can cloud issues of business and lead to unsupported judgments and decisions. It is not immediately apparent that trust in the business world is something to be reserved for the most solid of relationships — though none is probably [...]

There are two factors concerned with the morality of sex and sexual behavior: consent and maturity. Archaic definitions of sexual morality are unnecessarily restrictive, following the “fear the unknown” mantra, and fail to logically address the issue with anything more than circular arguments.
There have been several court cases in the recent past involving two sexual [...]

I joined the Philosophy Club at school this quarter. During one of the meetings we were talking about the roots of morality. The token Christian zealot declared that morality is ultimately objective and inherent, and is nothing more than what is good in the eyes of God. That’s obviously not a particularly lengthy or interesting [...]

Life is a series of decisions and considerations that lead one down a certain unique path. As humans, we think about the situations we’re in and react accordingly. In other words, we live through a cycle of thought and action.
I claim that most people are unbalanced with respect to this process. They either use too [...]

Atheism is the state either of being without theistic beliefs, or of actively disbelieving in the existence of deities.
Wikipedia
1. a) Disbelief in or denial of the existence of God or gods. b) The doctrine that there is no God or gods. 2. Godlessness; immorality.
American Heritage Dictionary
1. archaic : UNGODLINESS, WICKEDNESS. 2. a) a disbelief in [...]

Deception is providing intentionally misleading information to others. Wikipedia
I submit that deception in the form of telling exact partial truths is favorable to lying, even if such exact truths have known common assumptions that will lead to alternate or opposite understanding only if the consequences of such deception are much more favorable than full disclosure [...]